Paul Popenoe

Paul Popenoe (16 October 1888-19 June 1979) was an American eugenicist who supported compulsory sterilization programs and was considered the father of marriage counseling.

Biography
Paul Popenoe was born in Topeka, Kansas in 1888, and he moved to California as a teen and briefly attended Occidental College and Stanford University before leaving to take care of his father. He worked as a newspaper editor and then as an agricultural explorer in the Levant and North Africa, collecting date specimens for his father's nursery in California. During the mid-1910s, he became interested in the eugenics movement, and he became a vocal supporter of compulsory sterilization programs and marriage consultation programs. In 1930, he opened what would become the world's largest and best-known marriage counseling center by 1960, the American Institute of Family Relations, in Los Angeles. He died in Miami, Florida in 1979.